#9 1 1 8b

[neptune-scythe]

thinking about Maddie going feral charging at that bitch to keep her away from Chim

thinking about her with a slit throat climbing the stairs to save him

thinking about "you should be with your family" "what makes you think I'm not"

thinking about "you do matter to me"

I'm fine everything's fine

[911onabcbts]

My Dear Friend Peter, we miss you at work with us everyday. You were, and still will be, our leader always.

- Oliver via Instagram.

[bi-disaster-kit-herondale]

TV’s hottest couple i fear

ryan guzman - shot by Corey Myers for FOLIE

oliver stark - shot by Tyler Chick for Nineteen92

[frightfullytreeish]

I just think that when eddie's in el paso him and buck should be facetiming literally every free moment they have. buck cooking dinner at the station with eddie jammed into the spice rack. eddie watching tv with buck propped up on the arm rest reading a book, not even talking most of the time, just eddie occasionally commenting on this episode of hotshots and buck sharing cool parts from whatever he's reading. the 118 get into the habit of just calling out 'hey eddie' around buck because half the time eddie's there. eddie's new team in el paso get used to buck waving at them (and assume he's eddie's husband). sometimes if it gets late they'll brush their teeth and go to bed together with their phones propped on their bedside tables and just keep chatting until they're nodding off, and buck mumbles 'this is nice. we should have been doing this all the time' and eddie whispers 'yeah'

[sassay-fox]

Soooo, did anyone else notice -

1. Helena and Ramon pushing past Chris to get into Eddie's house

2. The with-holding of Chris' crutches? Like, how did Chris get from the car to the front door for the dinner? They handed Eddie his crutches and while Eddie helped Chris put them on pushed into the house and overwhelmed Eddie, taking over his kitchen.

At the chess tournament too, Ramon had Chris' crutches and left them on the seat when he finally came to check on Chris. Eddie had to remind him to get Chris' crutches so he could get Chris to the bathroom....

Withholding his mobility devices effectively made Chris dependent on them and a prisoner...

Just coz we all needed another reason to hate the Diaz parents....

[apricustar]

there’s something about this finale that left a bad taste in my mouth—and the more i sit with it, the more i realize it’s part of a bigger problem that’s been running through most of the season; something i’d even argue began back in s7.

this entire season has lacked emotional resonance. we’re not shown the important moments anymore, we’re just told they happened via seeing the result of the action. and that gap? it makes everything feel flat.

take the finale’s last few seconds—mara’s adoption, athena selling her house, buck looking at a new place, eddie staying in LA, madney’s baby. these should’ve hit. they should’ve meant something. but instead, it’s a montage we’re apparently supposed to feel something about, even though the show doesn’t take the time to let its characters feel anything??

it plays like a highlight reel more than anything! it’s rushed, detached, almost careless in its delivery, like the show just wanted to check boxes instead of tell a story. the show gave us the results, not the journey. and in doing that, it robbed those moments of any real weight.

eddie’s storyline is perhaps the clearest example of this issue. it feels as though eddie has been thrown away, especially in the latter portion of this season.

we open the season with eddie dealing with chris’ absence—sort of. we get that awkward birthday facetime call, the quiet ache of trying and still receiving nothing. we see eddie throw himself into work, into structure, into being okay. we see the performance of coping. we see him attempting show up and still be a father to chris despite being 800 miles away.

and!! then we don’t really see eddie grapple with his decision to move. not directly. it’s buck who finds the listings, buck who brings it into the open. in 8b, it bubbles up into tension and into that fight—and then eddie leaves, like he was slipping out the back door of his own life. after all the build-up, we still get nothing.

no first days in texas. no private moments with chris. no reconciliation. he disappears from entire episodes. he vanishes from his own story in a way that feels disrespectful.

he returns for bobby’s funeral. and in the finale, without a single conversation, he’s suddenly staying in LA. we never see him and chris talk about his move to el paso, or the decision to come back. there’s no acknowledgment of anything that happened up to this point—no conversation to do with anything of value!!

we just get a silent reversal of everything the season built instead, like none of it happened. all the important aspects of rebuilding happened entirely offscreen!!

and it’s not just eddie. this has been happening everywhere—this slow erasure of interiority, of depth, of care. the show used to sit with its characters. it used to feel like it knew them. like it trusted us to want more than plot. but now? everyone feels thinner. quieter. like echoes of themselves. like the writers are writing around the people they used to understand.

and the result is a season—and a finale—that feels emotionally empty not because there wasn’t anything there, but because it was never given space to land. we’re watching the outcomes of conversations we never got to hear. the aftermath of moments we never saw happen. the characters don’t feel fully fleshed out anymore. the show lacks heart. it lacks nuance. it’s lost the version of itself that once knew how to feel through things instead of just announcing them. and if the characters aren’t given space to care, to process, to live in the in-between—then how are we supposed to care, either?

so when the final montage hits—when all the big life changes flash across the screen—we’re not feeling closure. we’re just feeling the distance. the hollowness of a show that used to ask us to feel with it—and now seems scared to.

[neurobuckley]

Another hiatus over!

Made it to 8B, hiatus survivors claim your badge. Can't wait to watch Buck's imminent crash out!

[bylerismyeverything]

I can’t believe 8x09 is real. Wdym Buck tried replacing Eddie with a puppy and he actually got jealous? Wdym he’s moving to his house? Wdym they spent the entire episode acting like a divorced couple? Wdym???

[jackwhiteprophetic]

Bottle episode idea: call to an escape room, a power cut means the team end up split apart and trapped in separate rooms.

Bobby and Ravi are stuck with a patient and Hen and Chim have to try and talk them through some sort of medical procedure through a weird escape room door.

Buck is convinced there is something strange going on so is hyperfocused on figuring out why they're stuck while Eddie is becoming increasingly exasperated as the only person in the room trying to actually get them out.

Also all the rooms are weirdly themed in very targeted ways, Bobby's is cruise ship themed for some reason, Hen and Chim's is that they've been kidnapped, Buck and Eddie's is like underwater themed??

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Have we yet considered how terribly emotionally we’re all going to be during a Chris and Buck reunion scene? I say Buck specifically because, unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll see a happy reunion between Eddie and Chris. Especially if there’s an El Paso specific episode. I think things will be not good in the Diaz duo’s relationship at the beginning of the ‘Christopher comes home’ arc, but I’m hoping against hope that there will still be an adorable hug waiting for them both at the end of a very long conversation that they should be having soon. That’ll be MY reunion scene for them (please please please happen!!!).

And while I’m watching the negative aspects of their relationship play out, I’ll be thinking about that, and the eventual Buck and Christopher reunion hug. I need them to be sooooo embarrassing about it too. Christopher just made up with his dad after months spent apart, presumably being angry enough to essentially give him the silent treatment from three states away. Their relationship is better now, but Chris is probably only starting to realize all that he left when he went to El Paso (friends, his house, his school, his Buck, etc.), so it should be emotional on his end too!! We already know Buck is going to be crashing out over Eddie also being gone in the beginning of 8b, so getting both the Diaz boys back? And at the same time? That man is going to be a complete mess. That’s his family!!! That’s his boy!!! He missed them so much, and now they’re home, so he’s never letting them go again (until Christopher’s teenaged sass forces him to, at least).

I’m thinking that all three of them deserve sweet reunions with each other, and where one may not be possible, I will be vividly imagining a different reunion to get through the angst

[neptune-scythe]

thinking about Eddie having to choose between the family that actually supported and accepted him, and the family that forced him to grow up too soon, and criticizes him and punishes him every chance they get.

Having to choose between staying with the family he chose, but losing Christopher, or going back to the family he escaped to get Christopher back.

how ultimately Chris is always the single most important thing to him, and he's always going to choose him.

And even though Christopher is the most important person, the environment he has to be in to be with him isn't one Eddie can thrive in, unlike LA where he has Carla and Tia Pepa and a job that he loves with, as he called it, the family he chose ... and, of course, Buck. But he can't have that anymore, he has to give it up, and it's tearing him apart ... even if he doesn't show it.

He can't show it, he's never been in an environment that's safe to express his feelings outwardly. So while it looks like Buck is much more effected by Eddie leaving, he's not.

Eddie just internalizes it all, he has to keep it to himself. And he compartmentalizes it so well that he can make comments like "i have no ties in LA, everything that matters is in Texas." because all the good parts of his life in LA have to be locked away so far in his mind that he can't reach them, otherwise he wouldn't be able to let them go.

And maybe he says it hoping it'll be true. Using such absolute words to convince himself it's the case to make his choice easier.

Because he doesn't want to leave, he doesn't want to go back to the place where he's criticized and ridiculed and judged by his parents. He wants to stay with the 118, with his team, his family, the place he chose. But Christopher has to come first.

[911onabcbts]

Peter Krause’s goodbye letter to fans.

[bi-disaster-kit-herondale]

they dressed him like a beautiful lesbian

[superstuffedbanana]

I haven't watched the latest episode but to be honest, if there really is nothing buddie in the episode and separately to that, the plot and character development is as choppy and weak as it has been, I'm done with 911.

I don't want it to sound like I'm leaving bc I didn't get my way with Buddie but it's genuinely just upsetting that they paraded ryliver around all week, not just as 'friends' but flirting, reading thirst tweets, calling past scenes gay etc.

Like, it's 2025, we're not going to stick around for 16 years just for one of them to get killed off after we finally get an admission of feelings. Misha and Jensen never ran around acting like Destiel was actually gonna go canon, and Ryliver used to be like that too, until this week.

They simply can't push this far if they're not gonna follow through. You can't bait the audience into holding on because of their relationship if they're not actually in one, yk?

Also it's not just the press, they literally made Buck crash out over Eddie leaving, then had him fight off allegations that he's in love with Eddie in the way characters do when they're in denial and about to figure it out.

They wrote the show in this direction, and while I don't want it to be rushed, if there's no indication it's actually happening, then there's no point in hanging onto a show that's destroyed everything else I've liked about it.

[frightfullytreeish]

9-1-1 needs to continue its tradition of characters stumbling on their loved ones in kinky situations by having maddie nip round when she thinks buck and eddie are out to grab a coat she left behind yesterday or whatever only to discover buck blindfolded on the kitchen table with whipped cream on his nipples and when she shrieks eddie bursts in wearing a chef's hat and armed with a whisk

[igotabadfeelingabouteverything]

I started 9-1-1 because of buddie but I watched edits and read fanfic for it before actually watching it. So I started season 1 with the Buddie lens on and was just waiting for Eddie and Maddie (I knew they showed up season 2). One thing that I don't see many people talk about is in season one (or someone did, and i just didn't see the post). Bobby says this to Buck about Abby:

"Look, all those things that you feel when you're with Abby... the closeness, intimacy, and trust... those things don't come for free. Any woman of substance and experience has lived a life, and she's gonna come with some baggage. I think your problem is you're hoping to pull her out of this trap she's in with her mom. That's not gonna happen. What she needs is for you to step inside with her, keep her company in there."

The moment he said that, I immediately clocked it as a perfect setup for Buddie (even if it's not intentional). This is Buck's first real relationship with someone he's in love with. The first big heartbreak, it's a first step to the next person. The next person to enter his life is Eddie. Despite the rough start, their relationship definitely has that "closeness, intimacy, and trust." They don't really have anyone else at the 118, and Eddie shows up in a similar boat:

-Older and has definitely been through stuff

-comes with baggage (wife who left, disabled kid, & shitty parents)

and what does Buck do? "Step inside with her, keep her company in there."

"You got a kid? I love kids." Gives Eddie a ride to pick up Chris after the earthquake. Sees Eddie struggling and introduces Carla to help. School drop off. Asked Bobby if Chris could come to the Firehouse for Eddie. "What do you need me to do?" "What you always do." Helping Eddie after his breakdown. Etc.

anyways something something buddie meant to be something something I'm not smart enough to keep going and just wanted to bring this up because I was thinking about it right now and I've seen posts about Eddie narratively being written as a woman and I agree.

I also think it's funny that Bobby is the one telling Buck this, and Bobby also basically picks Eddie for Buck.